Former FBI agent from Carmel will plead guilty in child porn, national security cases

8:07 PM,
Sep. 23, 2013

Donald Sachtleben, a former FBI agent from Carmel, plans to plead guilty to accusations of possessing and distributing child pornography and unlawfully disclosing national defense information plans to plead guilty. Here, in July 2007, he holds up a coffee can that was destroyed by a blasting cap and two grams of explosives during a training session at the Amtrak repair yard in Indianapolis.

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The other case involved a national security leak about a thwarted Al-Qaida bomb plot that sparked a sweeping federal investigation and questions about the government's ability to seize phone records from journalists.

The first case, federal prosecutors say, was key in bringing the second case to court. ...